Here's an odd one. Way back, when I was a toddler, I took a visit to Cass Railroad and road one of the trains there. Anyway, there was a place known as the "Cass Company Store". Before we left, we stopped by the shop for some souvenirs. We got some things, but the thing that caught my eye was a series of small diecast locomotives(pic related). I remember wanting one of them, but my mom wouldn't by it for me, and that would be the last time I saw it. Years later, we were headed out of town for a party or something that was being held at a park. On the way, we stopped by a small store that had a whole bunch of different toys and stuff. There, I saw this little toy train that looked very similar to the ones I saw at Cass. That jogged my memory and I my mom got me one of them. A few more years later, I learned that the train I got was from a series of pull-back toys, but the one I got had its motor removed, for some reason. Even more years, later, I picked up on of the pull-back ones at a rest area, while I was on vacation. I had a bit of an affinity for these little locos, but none of them quite matched the ones I saw, all those years ago. Fast-forward to last year, I was was doing some ebay/google searching, or whatever, and I somehow stumbled across an ebay listing for some diecast mini locomotives. I investigated, further, and THERE IT WAS. The packaging I remembered the art on the packaging, the most, and once I got a look of it, everything just clicked. For the first time since I was about 3 - 5 years old, I was revisiting something that I was sure I was never going see again. Pic related isn't the exact one I wanted, but it was from the same set as it. Still, talk about closure.
